Press Release TWENTY EIGHTH ANNUAL(2009) Williamsburg Holiday Antiques Show Bettianne Sweeney of Holiday Antiques Shows has been committed to bringing antiques to Williamsburg, Virginia each Thanksgiving Weekend for twenty-eight years. A quality show with fine examples of 18th and nineteenth century furniture and accesories in room or shop settings featuring over thirty five dealers from thirteen states and the UK. Mrs. Sweeney on behalf of Holiday Antiques shows spends the summer traveling and visiting antiques shows in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine to recruit dealers for the show. Many of Holiday Antiques Show’s dealers do not make additional appearances in this part of the country. The dates are November 27th, 28th and 29th at the Williamsburg Kingsmill Marriott Hotel, 50 Kingsmill Rd. Williamsburg, Va. Admission $7.00 and children are free. For further information contact http://bettiannesweeney@msn.com or call 757-220-1299.
MARGARET SWEENEY SMITH AND DEALER CHRIS ENGLISH	Dealer Jerry Brill DEALER JERRY BRILL
Press Release November, 2009 The day after Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the Christmas season and you are invited to join the holiday festivities. The Holiday Antiques show will be held November 27, 28 and 29th at the Williamsburg, Kingsmill Marriott where for 28 years it has offered the alternative to mall shopping for local residents and the many holiday visitors during the busiest shopping weekend of the year.  Local area residents have been waiting to acquire the best in antique home furnishings while the visitors come looking for Holiday shopping for their very special purchases. The show is for discriminating collectors as well as gift buyers.  This year’s show is especially strong in the areas of eighteenth century furniture, American clocks, and nineteenth century artworks.  Visit the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum where you will see some of the same pieces that are offered at the Holiday Antiques Show.  The event is diversified although it is primarily a room setting show. The antiques must be 18th or 19th century with no vintage collectibles or crafts. Period and country furniture and accessories, excellent old lighting, prints and paintings, fine ceramics, high quality glass, estate jewelry and antique silver are some of the offerings.